The Hugo Valentin Centre is an
inter-disciplinary forum at Uppsala University with research as its prime task. Research is carried out within two prioritized areas: on the one hand phenomena and processes related to the ethnic dimension in human life, on the other hand genocide and severe crimes against human rights. To these subject fields belong minority studies and Holocaust and genocide studies as well as related and adjacent subjects where the Centre has a marked specialisation. Culture, language, history and religion are natural points of departure for the Centre's work...  Read more

News from HVC:

The Uppsala International Conference on Antiziganism

Deadline for paper proposals is May 31, 2013. The Uppsala Interna...

Symposium on Transitional Justice in Former Yugoslavia

Post-war justice in Former Yugoslavia will be discussed at a half...

Sverigefinnar och finska språket i ny omvärldsanalys

Vilka faktorer påverkar finska språkets ställning och framtid i S...

Nyinsatt seminarium om norsk språkpolitik och norska språkreformer vid millennieskiftet

Onsdag 24 april kl 14.15–16, Nordiska språks seminarierum (Engels...

On passive and active bystanders in genocide in this year's Hugo Valentin Lecture

The 11th Hugo Valentin Lecture takes place on 27 March in the Uni...

New book on Mediation and Liberal Peacebuilding

Routledge has published Roland Kostic's and Mikael Eriksson's col...

Conference on the Holocaust in European memory culture 21–23 March

The international conference Holocaust Memory Revisited takes pla...

Professor Ervin Staub invited for the Hugo Valentin Lecture 2013

The Eleventh Annual Lecture to the memory of historian Hugo Valen...

The Conference Citizens at Heart

HVC organizes "workshop" on issues of integration in a European c...

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